to convey; to report; to transmit; to communicate; to tell; to impart
business; task; use; purpose; for the use of ...; used for ...
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
assumption (of office); taking up (a post); inauguration; installation
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)
about; concerning; related to; -ish
black person; (arch.) woman in the nightlife business; (arch.) demimondaine; (arch.) geisha and prostitutes
pout; displeasure; ill humor; ill humour; sullenness
appearing that; seeming that; looking like; having the appearance of
stern; grim; rough; rugged; forbidding; overbearing
hairy caterpillar; woolly bear; pest; nudnik (nudnick)
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling
to store; to save up; to accumulate (e.g. knowledge); to build up (e.g. experience); to grow (a beard, moustache, etc.); to wear
person with a lot of experience; old hand; veteran (in a particular field)
the other day; a few days ago
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
the first and second; a few
substation; branch office
homicide department (of a police force)
southern part; the south (of a region)
layer; stratum; class; stratum; sheaf; counter for stories (of a building)
crowding together; clustering together; close formation; swarm
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)
being very busy; busyness
station (esp. a police station); office (e.g. tax office)
... being the case; (precisely) because ...; as might be expected from ...
bottom-up approach to management; on-the-spot decision-making; hands-on approach (policy, etc.)
incarnation (of Buddha or bodhisattva); avatar; embodiment (as in "embodiment of evil"); incarnation; personification
working one's way up; self-made person; veteran
corner; section; one horn; narwhal (Monodon monoceros)
sullenly; taciturnly; morosely; taciturn person; uncommunicative person
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
slowly; inefficiently; tardily; dawdling
bulky; massive; thick; heavy